JANUARY 30, 2014 ISSUE NO. 18 VOL. 50 WWW.THEGUARDIANONLINE.COM Wright Life Alunmna publishes first novel Page 7 What’s up with Justin Bieber? Page 4 Men’s Basketball: on the road again 73-57 Page 9 Frigid temperatures close campus Page 5 Opinion Sports News Entertainment ‘Lone Survivor’ review Page 6 Talking sports in San Diego W right State President David Hopkins returned from the NCAA’s annual confer- ence in San Diego optimistic that changes to the NCAA will benefit student-athletes at WSU. Hopkins, the Horizon League’s representative to the 18-mem- ber Board of Directors for the NCAA, was in San Diego to listen to a variety of opinions on key is- sues facing the NCAA. While no official votes were tallied at the three-day confer- ence in the middle of January, straw polls were taken to give decision-makers like Hopkins a pulse on how the 351 Division- I members feel about reforming the governing body’s structure. “I was pleased to hear so much common ground,” Hopkins said. “I believe this structure will al- low us to grow the way we want to grow.” Nathan Hatch, President of Wake Forest and Chairman of the NCAA Board of Directors, said a new structure would allow the association to focus on areas of student athlete wellbeing. “We must keep our focus not only on success on the athletic field but on educating the whole person,” Hatch said. “We can- not skimp on the academic de- mands, on academic support, on investing in social and profes- sional skills. We’re working on a culture where graduation is prized and expected is the coin of the realm.” Some of the straw poll num- bers showed members were supportive of the status quo in certain areas. According to fig- ures released by the NCAA, 65 percent were in favor of retain- ing college presidents as the only members of the Board of Di- rectors. When it comes to allow- ing members to override deci- sions from the board, 73 percent of those polled were in favor of keeping the override. But other issues showed pos- sible movement that could have direct impact on student ath- letes. Issues of allowing major conferences to have autonomy were a key part of the debate. One piece of autonomy that was discussed was whether athletes should be eligible for money from universities that is current- ly against regulations. One idea that gained traction at the convention was to allow universities to pay student-ath- letes for cost of attendance that would be a small amount to cov- er basic necessities. “While many institutions can afford to do that right now, they want to have the autonomy that if they can to pay cost of atten- dance, not pay athletes. They are totally opposed to that,” Hopkins said. “If they have the money to spend on students, we would like them to spend money on the students than jockeying up the cost of coaches’ salaries beyond reasons.” Hopkins added that giving big conferences autonomy on other issues such as scholarship num- bers and shared governance could become tricky. Of those polled at the conven- tion, 76 percent were in favor of shared governance that would help insure all conferences would have an equal voice with the NCAA. Currently, weighted voting is given to major football conferences over smaller confer- ences like the Horizon League that does not participate in foot- ball. Hopkins ‘optimistic’ about NCAA changes See HOPKINS on Page 9 Justin Boggs Sports Writer [email protected]Photo by Brittany Robinson: Staff Photographer
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JANUARY 30, 2014 ISSUE NO. 18 VOL. 50WWW.THEGUARDIANONLINE.COM
See INTERESTING STORY on Page 7
Wright LifeAlunmna publishes first novelPage 7
What’s up with Justin Bieber?Page 4
Men’s Basketball:on the road again73-57Page 9
Frigid temperatures close campusPage 5
Opinion SportsNews Entertainment
‘Lone Survivor’ reviewPage 6
Talking sports in San Diego
Wright State President David Hopkins returned
from the NCAA’s annual confer-ence in San Diego optimistic that changes to the NCAA will benefit student-athletes at WSU.
Hopkins, the Horizon League’s representative to the 18-mem-ber Board of Directors for the NCAA, was in San Diego to listen to a variety of opinions on key is-sues facing the NCAA.
While no official votes were tallied at the three-day confer-ence in the middle of January, straw polls were taken to give decision-makers like Hopkins a pulse on how the 351 Division-I members feel about reforming the governing body’s structure.
“I was pleased to hear so much common ground,” Hopkins said. “I believe this structure will al-low us to grow the way we want to grow.”
Nathan Hatch, President of Wake Forest and Chairman of the NCAA Board of Directors, said a new structure would allow the association to focus on areas of student athlete wellbeing.
“We must keep our focus not only on success on the athletic field but on educating the whole person,” Hatch said. “We can-not skimp on the academic de-mands, on academic support, on investing in social and profes-sional skills. We’re working on a culture where graduation is prized and expected is the coin of the realm.”
Some of the straw poll num-bers showed members were supportive of the status quo in certain areas. According to fig-ures released by the NCAA, 65
percent were in favor of retain-ing college presidents as the only members of the Board of Di-rectors. When it comes to allow-ing members to override deci-sions from the board, 73 percent of those polled were in favor of keeping the override.
But other issues showed pos-sible movement that could have direct impact on student ath-letes. Issues of allowing major conferences to have autonomy were a key part of the debate. One piece of autonomy that was discussed was whether athletes should be eligible for money from universities that is current-ly against regulations.
One idea that gained traction at the convention was to allow universities to pay student-ath-letes for cost of attendance that would be a small amount to cov-er basic necessities.
“While many institutions can afford to do that right now, they want to have the autonomy that if they can to pay cost of atten-dance, not pay athletes. They are totally opposed to that,” Hopkins said. “If they have the money to spend on students, we would like them to spend money on the students than jockeying up the cost of coaches’ salaries beyond reasons.”
Hopkins added that giving big conferences autonomy on other issues such as scholarship num-bers and shared governance could become tricky.
Of those polled at the conven-tion, 76 percent were in favor of shared governance that would help insure all conferences would have an equal voice with the NCAA. Currently, weighted voting is given to major football conferences over smaller confer-ences like the Horizon League that does not participate in foot-ball.
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Mars rover mission during his visit to Wright State commemo-rates the 10th anniversary of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) program and draws pro-spective students to WSU.
MER’s twin robotic geologists, Spirit and Opportunity, arrived on Mars ten years ago, on Jan. 4 and Jan. 24, respectively. They were sent to search for and ana-lyze the composition of rocks and soil that may indicate the past existence of liquid water on the surface, according to Lever.
Lever essentially guided the audience through the entire 10-year mission, with maps of the rovers’ routes, explanations of the discoveries made and chal-lenges overcome and pictures from every step of the journey. Audience members were given
3D glasses to view some of the stereoscopic images of Mars taken by the rovers.
WSU Biology Professor Dan Krane introduced Lever and hosted the subsequent question and answer session.
“It was wonderful, and I’m really glad we had such a good turnout given how cold it’s been,” Krane said. “The crowd seemed really interested.”
WSU’s Division of Enrollment Management co-sponsored the event, and high school students considering enrolling at WSU were invited to attend.
One of the purposes of the event was to draw talented area high school students interested in science, technology, engineer-ing and mathematics (STEM) to WSU, according to Krane.
“I really enjoyed seeing all of the prospective students there,” Krane said. “If you can get two or three new students to come to Wright State or maybe fire up two or three current students
The recent arctic cyclone and accompanying ex-
treme cold snap have caused a phenomenon known as frost quakes throughout the state of Ohio.
Cryoseisms, known colloqui-ally as “frost quakes,” are seis-mic events resulting from rapid decreases in temperature. Wa-ter present in the ground freez-es, expanding and putting stress on its surroundings. If this ex-pansion is too rapid, the stress builds to a breaking point. The stress is then released violently in the form of tremors, ground cracking, and loud noises.
These strange seismic events are rare in Ohio but they do oc-cur, according to seismologist and WSU professor of earth and environmental sciences Ernest Hauser.
In the month of January, there were reports of cryoseisms in
areas of Ohio ranging from Cin-cinnati to Cleveland. However, WSU seismographs detected none in the immediate area, ac-cording to Hauser.
“It would have to be nearby,” Hauser said. “It is a very local phenomenon and although felt locally where it does happen, the seismic energy attenuates rapidly with distance in the surface materials.”
This means that, while vio-lent at their epicenter, the lower frequency vibrations of cryoseisms affect a much smaller area than earthquakes. Therefore, a frost quake would have to occur rather close to campus for it to show up on a seismograph or cause notice-able tremors.
There is a possibility of more cryoseisms as winter drags on, but don’t worry. They might cause minor property damage in their immediate vicinity, but they pose no real danger, ac-cording to Hauser.
so they stay here, then it was worth it.”
Lever encouraged student at-tendees to pursue STEM educa-tions and careers.
“I wasn’t a perfect student in high school, and I didn’t plan my life around getting hired at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,” Le-ver said. “Follow your dreams and take your own path. Math-ematics, chemistry, biology, engineering, computer science--pursuing these fields can get you those cool, rewarding jobs.”
No resolutions originated in the Wright State Uni-
versity Student Government (WSUSG) have passed through WSU’s Faculty Senate this aca-demic year, according to faculty senate President Dan Krane.
“The Senate has passed sev-eral resolutions this academic year—on average between one and two per meetings. But none of them this year have originat-ed from student government,” Krane said in an e-mail.
According to WSUSG Vice President Kyle Powell, the role of Student Government is to not only advocate for students but to be activists on issues that af-fect students.
Raiderthon, a WSUSG-spon-sored dance marathon, raised over $50,000 for Dayton Chil-dren’s Hospital. Powell said that this indirectly helped the stu-
dent community.“It doesn’t have a direct im-
pact,” Powell said, “but it does have an impact on community and the people we serve.”
WSUSG functions by electing students to represent their con-stituents, compile issues that need to be resolved and pass resolutions within student gov-ernment that will later rise to Faculty Senate or administra-tors where it will be voted on and take effect if passed.
Over the past year, sev-eral resolutions have passed through student government but fallen flat afterwards. A resolution for a fall break is one such example of a resolution that passed WSUSG, but failed to take any further action.
“That was something that was pushed by a member last year,” Powell said. “I don’t know of any other push. I think he tossed it aside. That’s an older resolution.”
Resolution 13-11 was anoth-er such resolution that passed
through student government but took no further action.
The resolution was internal and pertained to the Student Government constitution. Ad-ditions were added and were supposed to have been included in the constitution, however during the Jan. 21 meeting, the constitution was discussed at length but was found to be missing the changes that were meant to have been added last school year.
Another forgotten internal resolution is Resolution 13-12, which was enacted last school year and was designed to give cabinet member’s duties. The duties were listed A-J in the resolution, but in the current by-laws only list A-C. The full list of duties was never added to the constitution, according to former chief of staff Spencer Brannon.
While no resolutions have passed through faculty senate this semester, Director of Aca-demic Affairs Anthony Hinojosa
said he has confidence that many of the items that mem-bers were working on last se-mester will be trickling up to be voted on by the faculty sen-ate this coming term.
Current resolutions that are in progress include providing universal access to all bath-rooms in new buildings and possibly a rewards scholarship proposed by Powell where one simply attaches the program to their current Kroger card and Kroger forwards a cut of money quarterly to the scholarship fund. There is also a resolution to lower tuition for students on active duty (more on page 5).
However, past issues that SG has concerned itself with also include wanting to decorate the tunnels with paintings, paw prints and WSU subjects. Even more recently, there has been indication that the new class-room building will have nearly no WSU branding.
“It’s college, so education should be the primary goal of
every student. I think that’s more important than branding, personally,” said student Beth Reinhart.
Powell has suggested a des-ignated smoking area, and Hi-nojosa hopes to be a vital part of lowering active duty tuition. Issues such as providing a lunch or dinner break for students would even be welcome. These are many issues that students wish to see solved.
“The parking thing,” student Preston Bowers said. “Russ…we went from half a lot, which was okay, to only ten spots now.” This was an issue he would like to see SG address.
“Student government and the faculty senate are independent of each other,” Krane said. “But, we are ‘on the same team’ in that both are very interested in what is best for WSU students.”
SG Update: no resolutions activated by faculty senateLeah KeLLey
and other times they suck even worse. What is it about the hu-man mind that brings us to perform these habits on a daily basis? Is it biological? Psycho-logical? Or anything else over my head? Probably, so don’t try explaining it to me.
I see habits everyday when I walk to class (granted I go to class). Smoking is one of the big ones as well as, uh, well, I can’t think of any others, but you get the point. However, when I walk into one of Wright State’s many dining halls, I see eating prac-tices that just annoy the hell out of me. Maybe it’s just our Ameri-can culture that brings us to do so; who knows (as well as who cares)? But I’d just like to take a few short paragraphs to express my hatred for these three main food devouring behaviors I see 86% of all of the time. They are as follows:
#1 – Eating spaghetti like a human. In all of my 19 years on this earth, I have yet to perfect a solid method of putting noodles
in my mouth. Yeah, I’ve tried the whole twirling method (trade-marked by Miley Cyrus) but I still manage to drag along the rest of the plate on the fork. It just doesn’t work for me. How-ever, some people are really good at doing that, and I mean REALLY good. So in order for me to stop looking like a complete idiot, just stop. It’ll make us all feel better.
#2 – Utilizing your napkin while ingesting hot wings. That’s just stupid. If you’re not done with your sauce-slathered piece of fake poultry, don’t wipe your hands, dammit! They are just going to get all messy again. And, by the time you have com-pleted the task of catching your tongue on fire, all your napkins will be dirty. Now what are you going to wipe your hands on, bub? Not your pants, you have a date later, remember? Just take my advice. It’ll make us all feel better.
#3 – Drinking water before-hand to prevent yourself from overindulging. Diets. Who cares about diets? Diets are like the devil in disguise because no-body likes them (except for a few weird-os, but whatever). I know some people do use this meth-
od as a way of cutting calories, but I utterly despise those guys. You know why? “No, but I figure you’ll tell me.” You are correct. This is why: they usually end up will a massive pile of food on their plate that I have to, in turn, eat like a fat person. Plus, it’s almost a waste of money unless you box up the remainders (but honestly, who really wants to package up 3 whole green beans and a slightly buttered bagel?). If you do, however, get a box and save what’s on your plate, it’s still a terrible idea because no one wants to eat a Styrofoam box full of 3 whole green beans and the crumbs of a slightly but-tered bagel. So, do us all a favor, don’t drink the water. It’ll make us all feel better.
What I’m trying to say here is simple: don’t be stupid; cut the habits, man. It’ll make me look more like a gentleman, and you, well, not so much. Either way, take my advice because I, Bran-don Berry, am funny. So laugh at me, dammit.
If you have any more eating habits that you’d like to express your hatred towards, e-mail me at [email protected] and I probably won’t get back to you.
Dear Unsure,
Theoretically, no. Choosing a mate should be based on love, right?
Maybe…but maybe not!
Let’s take a look at divorce really quick. One of the biggest reasons for divorce is money, right? How you spend the money, where the money comes from, and money stress in general. The less money, the more stress. It makes sense. If you go into a marriage or partnership knowing the other person won’t be of any help financially, you need to take a moment and think whether or not you’re prepared to support two people (or more if a family is included) on your own.
If you are ready, more power to you.
If you’re not, you need to cut all ties until they have a plan figured out, or frankly, until someone better comes along. You never need to settle for anything less than what makes you happy and comfortable.
That’s the hard truth. Not sorry about it.
Love,Mandy
Dear Mandy,
Should the ‘ability to provide’ be a factor in choosing a mate?
–Unsure
Disclaimer: Ask Mandy is satirical and intended for humorous purposes. The views and opinions reflected are
those of Mandy, not The Guardian as an organization.
in the sky, I think child stars col-lapse upon themselves when they cannot create nuclear reac-tions and, with the increase of pressure, they die.
Ok so they probably don’t ac-tually die, but in a sense I think they do. They’ve grown up, if only physically, and with the end of this early stage in their life, they can either continue growing, changing and shining, or burn out.
Child stars make me cringe. There’s so much pressure on their young shoulders. All the constant spotlights must leave
a pretty painful burn especially in this day and age. Even when they’re full-fledged adults, they will be referenced as a former child star.
For every Joseph Gordon-Levitt there’s a Gary Coleman.
To be constantly available for the public, to have your puber-ty documented in real time, to have every decision and action hyper-analyzed and discussed on 3 pm talk shows must be extremely difficult. Can you imagine how much harder it would have been on Harry Pot-ter if Twitter had been around? It was hard enough with Rita Skeeter, the TMZ of the Wizard-ing World.
From a young age, these kids are slaves to expectations, to adult pressures and public at-tention. How do you “grow up” normally in this type of envi-
ronment?I do feel some pity for JB. I’ve
never liked him as an artist or a person, but I do feel sorry for him. And now with his recent arrest for drag racing under the influence and underage, I be-lieve he is at a crossroads. The self-destructive behaviors he has been displaying so errati-cally these past months have been escalating to something more severe and I hope for his sake it ends here.
I’m not saying he’s blameless. He messed up, and needs to ac-cept the consequences. But I do think we all have a little byprod-ucts from our upbringing, and for his world to go so instantly from kid to superstar must have been surreal. Some therapy and accountability would do him well.
And maybe songwriting les-
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Splashtop is a new program that introduces technolog-
ical advances in Wright State’s learning systems and is making an appearance at WSU.
With its endless features like remote control operation, mo-bile convenience, and learning enhancing features will make engaging in classrooms easier and fun.
Splashtop enables students and professors to connect with curriculum content and mul-tiple forms of files including
Power Point. The professor can operate the program by using any electronic hook-up like the iPad, Tablet, Smart Phone, PC, or a Mac.
Students will have the op-portunity to use their own tech-nology with Splashtop to par-ticipate and interact with the lesson and the professor. For in-stance, the Splashtop program comes equipped with the White Board feature that is fully acces-sible for flash media, annotat-ing, snap shots, existing apps on the device, and the classic “white board” writing tool.
CaTs will begin offering Splashtop to faculty Fall 2014.
A resolution to lower active duty tuition for armed
forces has passed through Stu-dent Government and is now being prepped to face the Fac-ulty Senate. The current Director of Aca-demic Affairs Anthony Hinojosa is working to lower the tuition so that active duty undergradu-ates can afford their education. Many of the active duty students have families and bills to pay, much like other non-traditional students. “They like the education here and the programs that are of-fered for them,” Hinojosa said. “But when I asked them about tuition, they said it was a little expensive and they have to dig into their Montgomery GI bills.”
Extreme cold was the cul-prit for Wright State’s
cancelation of classes Tuesday and early release Monday, with the wind chill reaching record lows.Wright State University closed its doors Monday around 5 p.m. and remained closed through Tuesday.Temperatures Tuesday morning dipped to minus 12 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ac-cording to the National Weather Service. With a slight breeze, the wind chill dropped to minus 20. The NWS said that with wind chills that cold; frostbite could develop within 10 minutes.Nine morning lows so far in Jan-uary have been below 0.
Over 21 inches of snow has fallen in the Dayton area in the month of January. There have
There are 35 active duty armed forces members at WSU, which is a surprisingly low number for being next to a large Air Force base, according to Hinojosa. “Since they are using their GI bill, that means they’re dwin-dling away the time they have following them getting out for future education,” Hinojosa said. “So the 36 months they receive is actually just coming down and down and down…a lot of people just don’t have that extra $2,000 to pay in tuition.” The resolution passed swiftly through Student Government, but more data, numbers and statistics are needed to bring the initiative to Faculty Senate. “Once I implement that data into the resolution, it will be sent up to Faculty Senate and then hopefully voted on and ap-proved,” Hinojosa said.
been 13 days of measurable snow in the Dayton area that has caused shortages of salt supplies in the area.
The biting winds and bitter temperatures are turning stu-dent opinions on the weather for the worse.
Freshman nursing major Par-is Benson-Lewis and freshman social sciences education ma-jor Alexis Ford both expressed annoyance with today’s dip in temperature. Benson-Lewis stated that she was ready for spring.
However, some students are just happy to be out of school tomorrow.
Dalton Fisher, freshman nurs-ing major, was grateful for the weather, because it got him out of class for his birthday.
“I’m not a fan of being cold, but it worked to my favor,” Fisher said on Monday. “If my birthday wasn’t tomorrow, I’d probably be angry about it.”
Wright State was joined by dozens of local school districts in being closed Tuesday. Dayton
Public Schools are among the districts that have gone over their allotted number of ca-lamity days after being closed Tuesday and Wednesday
In Columbus, lawmakers are considering allowing grade schools four additional calam-ity days with additional inclem-ent weather expected in com-ing weeks. On Monday, Ohio Governor John Kasich recom-mended to the legislature to pass a measure keeping schools from making up snow days in the summer.The House Education Commit-tee considered the measure Wednesday evening. “School closures can, of course, be an inconvenience but stu-dent safety always comes first,” Kasich said in a statement. “Many schools have already hit the maximum number of snow days, or will soon, and if they exceed it and have to extend the school year it can wreak havoc with schools budgets and schedules.”
ENTERTAINMENT6The Real Reel: Peter Berg given too much liberty in Lone Survivor
Lone Survivor is a biopic that chronicles the story
of U.S. Navy SEAL Marcus Lut-trell and his three other SEAL Team 10 companions as they at-tempt to locate and assassinate a high profile Taliban operative, Ahmad Shah.
The mission is compromised when a small group of goat herders stumbles upon the team in the mountains. Instead of “terminating the compro-mise” the SEALs show mercy to their captives, knowing it could confirm their own demise, and release them.
The team is surrounded and slowly, and brutally, eliminated by Taliban soldiers. Of the four man team, only Marcus Lut-trell, played by Mark Wahlberg, makes it home alive.
The opening scenes of real life B.U.D.S. training (the initial eight weeks of SEAL training) set to yet another epic “Explo-sions in the Sky” track (if you know Peter Berg, and you know “Friday Night Lights,” then you could’ve guessed “Explosions” would be setting the mood) is some of the most inspiring foot-age you’ll see this year.
I’ve seen the film twice. On both occasions I was razzed up enough after the intro to en-list. It’s that inspiring. But by
the time the credits rolled that delusional idea had abandoned me.
This change of heart, and self-realization, is a direct result of what is the strongest aspect of the film: the blunt representa-tion of the grueling physical abuse the body can take when the mind has been trained for combat. Berg’s astute review of the autopsy reports and the battle scenario should be noted. This level of dedication, paired with close oversight from SEAL advisors and instructors, clearly shows. It’s as real as it gets on film.
The realness of combat tac-tics, logistics and maneuvers can be credited to the physical and tactical military training the cast endured. Which is good, because combat pretty much accounts for the whole movie. This leads me to my first issue with the direction of the film.
The book (by the same title) captures the reader with its character developments. True brotherhood manifested in ink, not the frightening gun battles, is what intrigues the reader in Luttrell’s account. Yet, this aspect was barely present in Berg’s version. Minimal dia-logue and a direct approach to the operation left little room for development of characters.
Bullets are flying and explo-sions are erupting before the audience is allowed to connect
with the characters. Before you know it, three men are dead, and Wahlberg, probably the least lovable character, is res-cued by anti-Taliban, Afghan vil-lagers. At this point the movie shifts from a factual storyline that contains logical inferences to fill in the holes to an almost completely fabricated climax.
In reality, Luttrell is separated from the other team members, meaning he did not witness their deaths. Yet, Berg seeks to fool the audience by granting each one of them dramatic, styl-ized deaths that leave everyone satisfied.
The Daily Beast’s Benjamin Busch said it best, “Its a movie...but lovingly presenting their last seconds with close up dra-matic pauses cheats us of the true cruelty of their deaths by allowing them to be peaceful, cinematic and strangely envi-able in the way of heroic inspi-ration.”
I would venture to say that all four of the actors (Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, and especially Ben Foster) have pro-duced some of their best work. Although it is still a struggle for me not to see Kitsch as Tim Rig-gins. All four clearly gave 100 percent effort and investment to this film. Yet, their perfor-mances are cheapened by how little their characters are devel-oped and how quickly they are disposed of for the sake of keep-
ing the audience engaged in the firefight.
The moviegoer doesn’t have an opportunity to understand the gravity of each team mem-ber’s death because he/she doesn’t grasp their person, character, or even relationship to Luttrell.
Following the deaths, Luttrell escapes from the pursuing Tali-ban soldiers and wanders the wilderness until the tribesmen find him. Luttrell then spent five days in the village at which time a small Army Ranger team located him and uneventfully brought him back to base in stable condition (aka no cliché resuscitation required). Appar-ently Berg didn’t feel that the compassion shown by the Mu-hammad Gulab (Luttrell’s res-cuer) as he nursed the wounded SEAL back to health was enough to satisfy the audience.
Instead we witness a full-scale assault by dozens of Tali-ban on the small village. Lut-trell’s protectors selflessly lay down their lives for his safety until the cavalry arrives with Apache airstrikes and etc.
If you’ve seen “The Kingdom” by the same director, starring Jamie Foxx, then you are famil-iar with Berg’s clear motive to promote the alternative, and probably more accurate and fair, view of Middle Eastern culture. There are several long
scenes in “The Kingdom” that depict the normalcy and inno-cence of the common Iraqi fam-ily, connecting the audience to the characters in an undeniable way. This is an honorable and necessary venture in American filmmaking.
However, Berg sacrifices too much of the truth for this pur-pose in “Lone Survivor.” In sum-mary, the real story is a more than satisfying tale of our na-tion’s finest, their brotherly love, their patriotism, and their sacrifice for the sake of mercy. The truth also more than suf-ficiently eliminates generaliza-tions about the nature of the people of Afghanistan. The sto-ry didn’t need any loose creative help from Berg to accomplish this.
The audience is deceived with unnecessary additions to the story and elimination of essen-tial elements of the stories foun-dation.
This movie was not meant to be documentary, but there must be some limit placed on the cre-ators of this film as to how far they can deviate from the truth and still call it fact. The issue here lies both with what was added, but more importantly with what was never included in the story. The movie was vi-sually awesome, realistic and inspiring. It just wasn’t truthful.
Timon ClineContributing Writer
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The Nexus Staff would like to thank all who participated in our November Creative Prompt Challenge. The theme for it was ekphrastic poetry or poetry inspired by a work of visual art. We had some amazing entries over the course of the month, which made it difficult to narrow it down to one. After some long discussions and multiple rounds of voting we came up with our favorite. We would like to Congratulate Brandon North on winning our first Creative Prompt Challenge.
The November 2013 Nexus Creative Prompt Challenge
Winner
The Poet in Rodin’s The Thinkerby Brandon North
Rodin’s sculpture is only a poetwhen lording over the tortures of others.
Standing at the gates of a man’s hell,his sincerity will not be questioned;
but find him alone, in fruitless gardens,and even angels are tempted to die
if they should become paralyzed by choice,a statue animating God in thought.
My mouth lowers to my knuckles, leaninginto the damnation of my poem.A Ruse
by Elizabeth George
In a room full of fools. Conversations that disturb the
flesh and confuse the mind.From this nonsense, I elude to another time when no one assumed and expectations were few.Nonsensical words fly to each corner of the wall and seep through that tune none can recall but many recant.I stare at the hairs of the clock waiting for noon, but the moon has not rested.Eyes closed, ears forcibly open- to people with ties that I’ll never be caught in.My ghost shies away; never wishing to be addressed. But it refuses to fade.
Funeralby Elizabeth George
Hazy cliffs that puncture the clouds, and a violet sky that collects faces.Things constantly change. A person is here, there, everywhere, then gone.Shadows absorb the daylight.The ground feeds off fears, the air- polluted with dark desiresI suffocate on this place.
A Study in Grayby Sarah Doebereiner
I am laying agonizingly still. Each breath is guarded. I cradle it tightly in my chest and let it slip away and disappear into the blackness. Moments pass. Just one more breath. Everything is out of place. Or is it I who am out of place and everything else is normal? My eyes swoop around the room. Silence. Darkness. The calm feeds the chaos in my mind. Heart races. Muscles ache with tightness. I could do-something, something more than bounce around the blank walls of my restless mind. But, no. It’s nighttime. Time for disjointed quiet. All the world is sleeping. All the world but me.
Inside I am screaming, but I don’t understand why. My life is typical. Wake-eat-school-leisure... Whatever else. Each day is different and each day is the same. They all run together after a while. I can go all day long, but when I am alone I feel like clawing my eyes out just to break the monotony. I don’t understand it myself, so I don’t expect you to understand.
At first everyone will be sad. They’ll feel guilty and cry and miss me. But that’s not the point of this. I know how it works. Days will pass and shock and sadness will dull. The first day they don’t think of me will be marred with guilt and relapse in sadness. Then they will think, wasn’t that day better, the day I didn’t think of her? Maybe it’s ok to stop being sad. And once that thought invades their mind grief unofficially ends. Once in a while something will remind them. But no, I’m not so foolish as to think time will stop. It will only stop for me. That is the point.
Melanie read silently to herself. She wondered how many drafts of this letter she had planned out. This was the first time she had allowed herself to actually set the words to paper. She read it again. It sounded a little preachy, and there were more errors than she realized. Part of Melanie wanted to rewrite it to be more pristine. She wanted it to be perfect. The dark ink against the sheer white paper was beautiful somehow. She wondered if tacking a ‘goodbye’ on the end would help it seem more sentimental. No. She decided she liked it as it was. The words should be flawed. Perhaps even a little cliche.
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Wright State students and the organization Be Free Dayton are speaking out to raise aware-ness.
Junior Haylie Boehringer works with the local group, which she said aims to edu-cate and bring more attention to efforts to stop human traf-ficking through several differ-ent branches which started in-dependently in 2011. Be Free
Dayton has an education sector which teaches classes to young people, to parents and to teach-ers to raise awareness, Boeh-ringer said. The organization also has a community outreach branch.
“We go to hotels, strip clubs and those sorts of things to help make our presence known and to help those business on the frontlines in the issue,” said Boehringer. “We help those places recognize when it might be going on.”
Boehringer said Ohio ranks fifth in the nation for human trafficking.
“There are also many places that are considered risk factors and hot spots for these sort of ordeals,” said Boehringer. “Plac-es like truck stops and high-ways, and especially around the Dayton region we’ve got three college campuses, the air force base and the highway, which are very risky spots. We’re kind of compilation of risk factors.”
Boehringer went on to say that in underage statistics that in there were nearly 3,000 at risk for human trafficking. In 2012 there were between 100 and 150 cases of stranger ab-duction in the area.
Alumna Sara Pyszka publishes first novelacter is based on myself. I think I have a different perspective from anybody else. I want to share that.”
However, Pyszka expressed that she wanted her story to be about “a typical teenager” and thus moved the focus away from Brynn’s experience with cerebral palsy and more toward her relationships.
Angela Bonza, Vocational Support Coordinator for the Of-fice of Disability Services and friend of Pyszka, said that these emotions are universal among those with disabilities and those without.
“All the things that are im-portant to us when we are seventeen are very important to Brynn,” said Bonza. “Friend-ships, romantic interests, wor-rying if other people like you. All of those things are such pri-orities at seventeen and some-times people don’t understand that people with disabilities have the same feelings and emotions.”
Pyszka said she feels that books and movies about people with disabilities focus on their overcoming of obstacles, which she sometimes finds annoying. She said she wanted to write a book about “somebody with a disability who makes mistakes,
and falls in love and is just a typical person.”
English lecturer Kathleen Kollman believes that “Dancing Daisies” could have a positive impact on society’s views on people with disabilities.
“I think any time that you have a positive portrayal of an issue or someone with a disability or someone who is a member of a marginalized population in the media, it starts the conversation and I think that it can make peo-ple feel less othered if they are also in that position, or make people feel more accepting.”
Wright State University Alumna Sara Pyszka
recently published “Dancing Daisies,” a coming of age novel about a teenage girl with cere-bral palsy who finds new friends at a summer camp.
The story centers around 17 year-old Brynn Evason, who, after experiencing a fallout with her best friends, seeks to spend her summer away at camp. Al-though she is originally met with a cool reception, Brynn finds the friends she’s looking for, one of whom becomes a love interest. Soon, though, their relationship is put to the test when a misun-derstanding occurs.
“Dancing Daisies” is available for purchase on Amazon in pa-perback as well as ebook for-mat.
Pyszka, who graduated from WSU in 2010 with a degree in Rehabilitation Services, said that she based the main char-acter, Brynn, on her own ex-periences with cerebral palsy. Brynn, much like Pyszka, “is in a wheelchair and uses a commu-nication device,” said Pyszka.
“I can try to deny it all I want,” said Pyszka, “but the main char-
“We have to make sure we teach kids about [the] dangers,” said Boehringer.
One issue that Be Free Day-ton focuses on is sex trafficking.
“We have a special branch that covers sex trafficking,” said Boehringer. “There is such a high demand for [sex traffick-ing] in this market and we hope bringing light to this will help decline it.”
The group also includes a re-search department that takes a look at how human trafficking is directly related to the Dayton and Miami Valley area. Boeh-ringer herself manages the
outreach program in the group which gets involved directly with locations like hotels to bring awareness and hopefully will be able to spot it happen-ing.
For those interested in anti-trafficking work, there are two student organizations on cam-pus devoted to fighting against human trafficking: a WSU chapter of Be Free Dayton and Generation Freedom Makers, a standalone group started last semester at WSU.
When asked to describe Pysz-ka’s personality, Bonza said that her artistic nature is the most evident.
“She’s a writer,” Bonza said. “You know, that free-spirited, artistic kind of person. She’s al-ways been that way. You know how artists have that kind of aura about them? That’s always been her.”
In addition to writing fiction, Pyszka has also written song lyrics, poems, and “many other things,” according to Bonza.
Pyszka stated that there were two things she wanted her au-
dience to take away from the book. “The first is that I am able to have a romantic relationship. Yes, my relationships are going to be a little different, but I am able to love just as much as any-body else is able to love.”
The second thing Pyszka wants more people to under-stand that sometimes the dis-ability is not the problem. Pysz-ka explained, “Getting betrayed by your friends is always going to trump not being able to walk. The feeling of not being accept-ed is always going to trump not being able to talk.”
Sara Pyszka singing the National Anthem at the 2010 Relay for Life at Wright State University.
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A three-game road trip got off to a rocky start last
Saturday when JT Yoho’s layup at the buzzer went off the rim as the Raiders fell at Youngstown State 68-67.
Following a bitter loss, Wright State is looking to redeem itself this weekend. The Raiders are taking on UW-Milwaukee this evening followed by a trip to Green Bay Saturday.
“It was tough but they’re all tough to bounce back from,” WSU guard Matt Vest said. “The best way is to come back to practice hungry and maybe a bit feisty and have that competitive spirit and try to improve.”
The Raiders are 3-1 at home and 2-2 on the road in league play as WSU has played all conference foes once. Tonight starts the Raiders’ second go-around in the Horizon League.
“All of the games in the league when you play everyone a
second time, considering how tight second through seven are (in the standings), every game is important,” Wright State head coach Billy Donlon said. “It is still an everyday process and keeping everyone in the right frame of mind.”
With conference play halfway over, the Raiders are in a tie for second place at 5-3. Without a win at Green Bay Saturday, chances at a conference title are nearly impossible for Wright State. The Phoenix are unbeaten at 7-0 in Horizon League play (through Wednesday).
But the Raiders cannot look past tonight’s contest versus Milwaukee. The Raiders topped the Panthers 73-57 nine days ago. The Panthers have lost three in a row including the contest to WSU on Jan. 21.
“It is going to be weird, a lot of the scouting will have already been fresh in our brains,” Vest said. “A lot of their actions we will be familiar with. I am sure they will show us some new stuff and we’ll show them some
SPORTS
new stuff. It will help us.”Donlon agreed that facing
a team twice in nine days is a challenge.
“It is unique in your league race to play one opponent and then play each other, play one opponent, and play each other again,” Donlon said. “We’ll have to be ready. They hurt us with their inside play in the second half and I think they’ll make some 3s that they missed as they had to play three games in six days.”
The Raiders will be without the services of forward Cole Darling tonight. Though Darling has only missed two games this season, he has been battling shoulder and ankle injuries throughout the year.
He had surgery on his shoulder last year after missing the final 10 games of the 2012-13 season.
“You just feel bad for Cole, in hindsight, probably would have redshirted Cole,” Donlon said. “But his season isn’t over. He’ll play the following week.
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But it has just been hard for him and inconsistent for him. You feel bad for him, he is an All-Conference caliber player, caliber talent and anyone an injury happens to a senior, there is nothing more gut wrenching as a coach.”
Donlon said he has not been ruled out for Saturday’s contest but is more likely to return for Wednesday’s game versus Youngstown State.
“You get autonomy on these things plus the big five confer-ences voting to impact every-thing else,” Hopkins said. “So the conversation is what is shared governance and what are the things that we are all going to have the same values on. If you’re in Division I, we’re all going to be representing them the same (though shared governance).”
If the NCAA begins allowing universities to give athletes a stipend to cover cost of atten-dance, would Wright State take advantage?
“To fund that here for all of our student athletes would be very challenging,” Hopkins said. “But I think what we would consider is what would we do for those full -- I don’t want to get ahead of the conversation -- but for men’s and women’s basketball. If we did something for one, we would do it for the other.
“The Horizon League has al-ready gone on the record … that we would be committed to do-ing it for men’s and women’s basketball.”
The board next meets in April with the hope to have a new structure for the NCAA in place by August. While Hop-kins believes not everyone will be completely happy with the changes, he does believe every-one will be happier.
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Last year, Super Bowl XLVII between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers drew an average audience of 108.7 million viewers according to Nielsen. It’s a safe bet that the majority of those people had some vested interest in either team.
However, that’s not always the case. A lot of people watch the Super Bowl who are not even football fans.
So for the interested minority, here is my non-football fan’s viewing guide to Super Bowl XLVIII:
How we got here
Basically, there are two conferences in the NFL (AFC and NFC) with 16 teams in each conference. At the end of the regular season, each conference holds a 6-team playoff to determine who is going to the Super Bowl from the AFC and NFC.
The Denver Broncos finished 13-3 in the regular season and won two games in the playoffs to capture the AFC Championship. The Seattle Seahawks also finished 13-3 and won two games in the playoffs to capture the NFC Championship.
Which “style” of football each team plays
“Style” simply refers to the types of plays each team typically calls in a given game.
The Broncos love to throw the ball. A lot. Their quarterback, Peyton Manning, who we’ll get to shortly, is arguably the best at this position. When the Broncos are on offense (trying to score points), you will see a lot of passes. During the regular season, no one threw or completed more passes than Manning.
The Seahawks are the exact opposite - they love to run the ball. Their running back, Marshawn Lynch, (the guy who receives the handoff from the quarterback) is also one of
the best at his position. Lynch finished second in the league in rushing attempts, and Seattle will give him the ball early and often.
Seattle also has, arguably, the best defense in the NFL. It is certainly a much better defense than Denver’s, statistically. The Seahawks play very physically when on defense and are known for having a strong secondary (the guys who defend against the wide receivers).
Players to look for
Both teams are loaded with talented players on their rosters.
As I mentioned already, Peyton Manning is considered to by many to be the best quarterback in the NFL. Others consider him to be the greatest that has ever played the game. Expect the FOX announcers to tell you all about his record-setting season before and during the game.
Denver also has an explosive group of wide receivers, or pass
catchers. They are Demaryius Thomas, Eric Decker, Wes Welker and Julius Thomas. And although the Broncos run more than they pass, their running back Knowshon Moreno is very good, too.
But Seattle is banking on the idea that its defense can stop these guys. The player you are most likely to hear the most about is Richard Sherman. He plays in the secondary, wears No. 25 and has long dreadlocks that spill out of the bottom of his helmet. Many consider Sherman to be the best at his position.
Sherman is also very vocal. He made headlines recently for a postgame rant about another team’s wide receiver. Some people believe, because of his demeanor, Sherman is a thug. Others point to the fact that he is a Stanford graduate who overcame an upbringing in the streets of Compton, CA.
Form your own opinion.
The stadium, the weather and other things
The game will be played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. Usually, the game gets played in a warm city, like Miami, San Diego or Tampa. The Weather Channel is predicting temperatures in the mid-40s for the game. However, MetLife Stadium does not have a retractable roof to cover the field if the conditions worsen.
If the weather turns out to be really poor, the NFL has reserved the right to reschedule the game to the Saturday before, or the Monday or Tuesday after.
The game will be broadcasted on FOX. Joe Buck- an announcer very few fans like or respect- and Troy Aikman- a Hall of Fame quarterback- will announce the game.
A non-football fan’s viewing guide to Super Bowl XLVIII
“I am a Giants fan, so I would have to stay in the family and say the Broncos, but they are expecting a blizzard so it should be an interesting game. I think the score with a blizzard will be 10-7, and without a blizzard it will be 21-17.”
“I think the Seahawks will win because they have the best defense in the game, but the game is going to be in tough weather which will impact the Broncos passing game. I think the score will be 24-17.”
“I think the Seahawks will win, because they have the better defense. The score will be 24-17.”
“I love Peyton, he’s old like me and to me he’s come back from a serious injury so I kind of always like to root for people like that who are underestimated. My grandson is named after Peyton Manning, so I have to root for the Broncos. I know exactly what the score will be: 30-24.”
“I want the Broncos to win because Peyton went to Tennessee and I also went there, plus they had an awesome record throughout the season. I think the score will be 35-10.”
Who will win Super Bowl XLVIII?
Billy DonlonMen’s Basketball Head Coach
Jeff EllisPhilosophy Major
David HopkinsPresident
Shane BarnettBusiness Management Major
Kirsten GibsonNursing Major
Donlon, Hopkins, students make their picks
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